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Juniper announces plan to Acquire WLAN Vendor, Mist Systems
Juniper Networks announced plans to acquire Mist Systems for approximately $405M in cash. We think this deal makes sense for Juniper, who can now sell a key technology – WLAN – into its customer base of large and medium enterprises. Valuation of the deal probably fell a bit short of… Read More »Blog
MWC19 Was As much About Enterprise and Unlicensed as it was 5G
We attended the Mobile World Congress last week in Barcelona along with an estimated 104,00 others from nearly every country in the world. We met with over 42 companies and nearly 200 people at the show and attended many press announcements. While most of the MWC19 headlines were about 5G,… Read More »Blog
THOUGHTS from Extreme NEtworks analyst day
Today I attended the Extreme Analyst day at the NASDAQ in New York. Extreme’s 4Q18 switch revenue grew over 10% and in our preliminary view of 4Q18, it took share. The company highlighted over 30,000 customers and over 6,000 partners in a one-Extreme approach that has integrated the acquisitions of… Read More »Blog
Amazon Acquisition of eero Impacts Google, NETGEAR, Linksys, Ubiquiti and TP-Link
Today, Amazon announced that it will acquire eero, a consumer mesh WiFi equipment company that as of 3Q18 had 13% revenue share. In 3Q18, the consumer mesh WiFi market measured just over $150M, which was up just over 34% Y/Y. The number one player by revenue was NETGEAR in 3Q18,… Read More »Blog
WDC Analyst Meeting Update; reiterating the 10x cost differential between HDD and Flash
Western Digital Corporation, also known as WDC, held its investor meeting yesterday. We highlight four important disclosures: (a) it expects HDD to survive, despite flash’s advantages, (b) WDC’s plans to use RISC and launch a new memory interface, (c) an update on current business trends, and (d) the company’s plans… Read More »Blog
Cisco’s New Catalyst 9800-CL Wireless Controller Signals A Shift Towards Cloud-Managed
On November 13, 2018, Cisco announced its new Catalyst 9800 Wireless Controller. With this announcement, Cisco now enables large enterprises to manage their WLAN networks from the cloud. This announcement has several components to it that are interesting. Available C4Q18 The 9800 runs Cisco IOS XE The 9800 can be… Read More »Blog